mercredi, mars 24, 2004
   

blogging mania.

was talking about the SG's govt's desperate appeal for storks to consider developing their regional headquarters in SG.
alright. so the problem is, people are making a helluva lot of noise about it.
so, fellow educated people who have undergone human geog sometime in our lives, the morphing of the population pyramids spell imminent and unavoidable trouble for countries reaching advanced states of development in their social strata. [eek]. i shall not bother to explain the normal reasons why it is disastrous for the relevant authorities.
the problem is not with the shrinking population. >if the populations of the entire world were changing in similar proportions everywhere, then we would be very happy that the strain on Gaia's resources are lightening. however, it is not. the 3rd world countries, especially of India and China, are exploding. henceforth we need to maintain our population size to assert our dominance in the world economy. so if we disappear off the map, we will be absolved in the muddle of chinese and indians flooding the market. no more singaporean identity, no more singaporean government, no more leadership posts for those pple up there. as for us citizens, as long as we have a good country that provides, good money, good life, good climate, it doesnt really matter what country we are born in. nvm. but if we're patriotic, we take the preserve singapore stand. alright. hence we need pure bred singaporeans and not imported converted singaporeans. hence, we need to give birth to them. else we'll be a muddle of foreigners from all over with no allegiance and no memories of singapore. lala. so how? don't know. unfortunately, we do not have a rural population to push up towards the urban population. unfortunately, we stress so much on internationalization, so much on globalisation. we are so open to the world, so aware of the world. we are so welcome by the world. we can emigrate so easily. we lose our identity. we are absorbed into the world. and yet here we are, trying to make ourselves, trying not to forget ourselves.
but they just keep on complaining about the silly incentives and plans to boost birthrates. what can the poor govt do. what plan can possibly work? let's just become new york and have an international city. but but. it is just a unfortunately unfortunate byproduct of our wildly successful economical system which has brought so much prosperity to the country.

we bloom overnight, and wilt away. too fast gained, too fast lost. life's fair, in the end, in the whole.


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